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Teen Suicide
"America needs to be more aware of what teens are going through."
By Starr Stansberry
Suicide is the third cause of death for youth ages 15-24, but mostly teenagers. In these days of so much pressure and strife, teenagers are more stressed out than ever. The bustle of school like tests, graduation, and peer pressure are usually causes of this stress. Other pressures might be life problems, like trouble, parents, issues with themselves, bottled fear, etc.
Some cannot take that kind of pressure and they buckle. There are ways to lighten the effect of this pressure, but some don’t see those as possible options. The only real option that some teenagers see is suicide.
Why do teenagers see such a horrible thing as a way to ease the pain, or a way to just give up? Sometimes it is not solely based on the teenager themself; it is on those who interact with the teen, such as parents or peers. Many peers these days love to joke around about serious things and some take this joking too far, hitting personal spots, which can kill self-esteem.
Even parents lead some teens to commit suicide because the teenager does not agree with what the parent is telling them even though what is being told to them is most likely beneficial. Some teenagers are dealing with drug abuse and cannot quit and that is the only way they know how to get out.
America needs to be more aware of what teens are going through. It is as if we are being swept to the side even though we are the next generation. If this persists, who is going to run America? Who is going to cure cancer or solve the problem of world hunger? Suicide is the cancer, depriving American teenagers of their potential. A friend of mine, Mike Aguano, who was a senior and about to graduate when he committed suicide- and no one to this day really knows the real reason why he did it.
There is only one real solution to this and that is to find a war for us teenagers to vent out inside problems, the old way of writing journals and things just aren’t cutting it. I think parents need to get involved and maybe, step by step, teenagers can cure this disease.
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